Industry Note:
Home Care Therapy Could Save Medicare Money
Published on Fri Mar 08, 2013
New study backs up industry’s assertions about therapy services. Law- and policymakers looking to cut home care funding could be shooting themselves in the foot, a new study suggests. Long-stay home care patients who received physical and/or occupational therapy were more likely to show functional improvements and less likely to be institutionalized, compared to patients who didn’t receive therapy, says [...]